For each respective virtual machine (VM) of a plurality of VMs, a distributed computing system generates a unique Application Binary Interface (ABI) for an operating system for the respective VM, compiles a software application to use the unique ABI, and installs the operating system and the compiled software application on the respective VM. A dispatcher node dispatches, to one or more VMs of the plurality of VMs that provide a service and are in the active mode, request messages for the service. Furthermore, a first host device may determine, in response to software in the first VM invoking a system call in a manner inconsistent with the unique ABI for the operating system of the first VM, that a failover event has occurred. Responsive to the failover event, the distributed computing system fails over from the first VM to a second VM.
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2. The method of claim 1, wherein the software component is an operating system kernel.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein the software component is a software application.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein the software component is a library instance.
10. The distributed computing system of claim 9, wherein the software component is an operating system kernel.
11. The distributed computing system of claim 9, wherein the software component is a software application.
12. The distributed computing system of claim 9, wherein the software component is a library instance.
17. The distributed computing system of claim 9, wherein the distributed computing system is configured to discard the first VM in response to determining that the failover event has occurred.
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